Mackerras

Directed by Josephine Mackerras, “Alice” presents sex work as a potentially empowering option for women.

Mackerras doesn’t go into these details.

The narrative feature competition grand jury prize went to “Alice,” written and directed by Josephine Mackerras.

Mr. Labadie is the latest in a line of distinguished leaders, including Pablo Heras-Casado, Donald Runnicles, Charles Mackerras and Roger Norrington.

That requires charisma, willpower and a quality that the conductor Charles Mackerras summarized as “emanation”: sending messages on terms beyond the physical.